Senior Product Manager

About The Role

Hippo is recruiting for Senior Product Managers to join our growing team. Product Managers ensure that our client's goals turn into actions. This means creating a compelling vision for your product, developing the product roadmap, writing user stories and actively managing them in a prioritised backlog.

As a Senior Consultant, specialising in Product, you'll already be an expert in your field, in agile and a confident coach. You'll also be a leader of people and teams and an advocate for user centred design approaches. Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise with, and influence, clients and team members and to continue to develop you as a leader.

Your Role In a Nutshell

• Inspiring and guiding your colleagues by supporting them in understanding the client's needs, explaining the broader context and getting buy in.
• Provide team leadership and protect your team from unwanted distraction where possible, allowing them to focus solely on delivery.
• Engage with stakeholders to create a project vision and translate into a roadmap & prioritised backlog.
• Communicating with an extremely diverse group of people, including experts in their field.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team delivering work on behalf of one of our high profile clients.

Qualifications

• Lead a team of specialists in their field.
• Identify and use evidence of value to drive decision making to ensure the user is at the heart of the team.
• Build consensus among people with different perspectives, with the confidence to make decisive decisions when consensus is not possible.
• Bridge the gap between stakeholders and the team so the team can remain focused on delivery.
• Find pragmatic and creative ways to balance constraints such as policy and security in order to prioritise work and meet user needs.
• Perform well in a wide variety of delivery disciplines (Scrum, Kanban).
• Communicate confidently and credibly on behalf of the company and the client.
• Lead workshops and group exercises, remotely and in person.
• Build product and user centric capabilities in others, helping colleagues and clients know what to do when you are not around.

Benefits

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%).
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays.
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts.
• Critical illness cover.
• Life assurance and death in service cover.
• Volunteer days.
• Cycle to work scheme for avid cyclists.
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme.
• Season ticket loans.
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions.
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
  1. private health cover
  2. private dental cover
  3. additional company pension contributions
  4. additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
  5. wellbeing contribution
  6. charity contributions
  7. tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo

We actively encourage applications from under represented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant.

Hippo Locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. Candidates must be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices, which will be your contracted office location. You may be required to work on site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week. We offer a relocation support package up to £8k.